Endosymbiotic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.

    "The person perhaps most responsible for resurrecting and then establishing the serial endosymbiotic theory, thus creating the new field of endocytobiology, is Lynn Margulis, one of the world's foremost authorities on the evolutionary biology of the microbial world and a cofounder with Max Taylor of the Society for Evolutionary Protistology."

  2. 2
    That lives within a body or cells of another organism. Forming an endosymbiosis.

Example

More examples

"An endosymbiotic relationship is basically a relationship in which one organism lives inside another organism and both benefit from it."

Etymology

From endo- + symbiotic.

Related phrases

endosymbiotic theory

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